Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 29 June 2017.
Gloria De Piero
Labour, Ashfield
12:00,
29 June 2017
Ashfield, like many former coalfield constituencies, receives way below the average in lottery funding. Is not it time that the lottery publish not just how much money it spends in each Constituency, but how many tickets are purchased in each constituency, so that we can see whether the poorest areas are subsidising the richest?
In a general election, each Constituency chooses an MP to represent them. MPs have a responsibility to represnt the views of the Constituency in the House of Commons. There are 650 Constituencies, and thus 650 MPs. A citizen of a Constituency is known as a Constituent
